Rohden (Hessisch Oldendorf)

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Rohden
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 38 "  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 38"  E
Height : 105  (101-129)  m
Area : 3.64 km²
Residents : 699
Population density : 192 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 31840
Area code : 05152

Rohden is a place in the municipality of Hessisch Oldendorf and has 699 inhabitants.

View from the mountain to Rohden near Hessisch Oldendorf

It is located in the Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln nature park about 4 kilometers north of Hessisch Oldendorf and 15 kilometers northwest of the district town of Hameln . State road 434 runs through Rohden .

history

Rohden was first mentioned in a document in 1015.

The place has a remarkable stone box from the Neolithic Age . There are also two manor mills belonging to the Counts of Schaumburg from the 10th century on the Rohdener Bach . The abandoned hilltop castle Burg Roden is located on a plateau of the Amelungsberg near the village .

In Rohden (Hessisch Oldendorf) a witch hunt was carried out around 1560 : Dieckmann was accused in a witch trial. She made a confession under torture and was likely cremated.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Schormann : Witches' persecution in Schaumburg , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Volume 45, Hildesheim 1973, pp. 149–151.

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